Gift #8 Translation

When you choose to receive the free gift of salvation, you are given automatically at least seven more free gifts. The free gift of salvation is the only one you must choose. All the others are given freely to you when you choose salvation.

Translated =to change form, condition, nature; to move from one position to another

Kingdom = realm or sphere of independent control; the domain over which the spiritual  sovereignty pf Jesus Christ extends, whether in heaven or on earth.

A kingdom change requires a new ruler, new laws, new citizenship, new allegiance, a new destiny.

Not under the law but under grace

Citizenship in Heaven

No longer a slave to the sin nature but now contain a new nature

Jesus Christ is preparing an eternal  dwelling place with Him for you and me

You and I are delivered from the power of darkness translated into the kingdom of Jesus Colossians 1:

¹²Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

¹³Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

¹⁴In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

¹⁵Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

¹⁶For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they bethrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

¹⁷And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

What do you understand the power of darkness to be? Is it your sin nature? Is it the enemy’s wiles?

What does it mean to you to have citizenship in the kingdom of Jesus Christ?

Philippians 3:

¹⁷Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an example.

¹⁸(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:

¹⁹Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

²⁰For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ:

²¹Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

Subdue = conquer; overpower; bring into subjection

What does receiving a new body mean to you?

How much power must Jesus have to subdue all things unto Himself?

Can there be any room for fear?

I’m a Child of the King – Harriet Buell, 1877

1. My Father is rich in houses and lands, He holdeth the wealth of the world in His hands!
   Of rubies and diamonds, of silver and gold, His coffers are full, He has riches untold.
   • Refrain:
     I’m a child of the King, A child of the King:
     With Jesus my Savior, I’m a child of the King.

2. My Father’s own Son, the Savior of men, Once wandered on earth as the poorest of them;
   But now He is pleading our pardon on high, That we may be His, when He comes by and by.

3. I once was an outcast stranger on earth, A sinner by choice, an alien by birth,
   But I’ve been adopted, my name’s written down, An heir to a mansion, a robe and a crown.

4. A tent or a cottage, why should I care? They’re building a palace for me over there;
   Though exiled from home, yet still may I sing: All glory to God, I’m a child of the King.

Hebrews 12:¹ Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

² Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God

Dearly Beloved,

Run with your eyes on Jesus alone!

Run in faith that Jesus loves you with an everlasting, unconditional love; has uniquely designed and created only one you; has a good plan for your life; runs with you; and will accomplish His purposes for you and through you!

Run in His strength alone!

Run with your eyes on the prize!

Run with your focus on His mission: to conform you to the image of Jesus Christ!

Run with the desire to finish strong!

Run with the desire to finish with your lamp burning!

Run with the expectation of being in His physical presence when you cross your finish line!

Run to His glory alone!

Run and keep on running!

Coach Patti